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Springboard, Men

Date	30 – 31 July 1948
Status	Olympic
Location	Wembley Arena, Wembley, London
Participants	27 from 16 countries
Format	3 metre springboard. Final round only. Five compulsory and five optional dives.

Bruce Harlan led through the preliminaries. Miller Anderson had the best score of the final five dives, but he had only been fourth in the preliminaries and the scores carried over. Thus Harlan won the gold medal with Anderson second. American Sammy Lee completed the sweep by earning bronze. Lee would later win platform gold in London and defend that title in Helsinki. Anderson would repeat as the silver medalist in this event in Helsinki.

Harlan and Anderson both died young. In 1959 Harlan was involved in a diving exhibition and at the end helped to take down the scaffolding for the exhibition, when he fell 27 feet to his death. Anderson had been a decorated fighter pilot in World War II, but at age 42 he died from a heart attack.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Bruce Harlan	USA	163.64	Gold
2	Miller Anderson	USA	157.29	Silver
3	Sammy Lee	USA	145.52	Bronze
4	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	141.79
5	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	126.55
6	Svante Johansson	SWE	120.20
7	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	119.90
8	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	114.59
9	George Athans	CAN	114.13
10	Frank Gosling	BER	113.98
11	Milton Busin	BRA	113.86
12	Franz Worisch	AUT	112.15
13	Peter Heatly	GBR	111.73
14	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	110.78
15	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	110.18
16	David Norris	AUS	109.67
17	Diego Mariscal	MEX	107.78
18	Charles Johnson	GBR	105.32
19	Willi Lippa	AUT	103.18
20	Guy Hernandez	FRA	102.89
21	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	102.22
22	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	97.52
23	Peter Elliott	GBR	91.23
24	José Castillo	CUB	84.81
25	Ernst Strupler	SUI	80.09
26	Günther Mund	CHI	68.08
DNF	Eddie Heron	IRL	–		1
DNS	S. Kalapos	HUN	–
DNS	Béla Balla	HUN	–
DNS	László Hidvégi	HUN	–
DNS	Zouheir Shourbagi	SYR	–

Preliminary Round (30 July 1948 — 09:00)

Five optional dives.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Bruce Harlan	USA	52.28
2	Sammy Lee	USA	46.99
3	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	46.87
4	Miller Anderson	USA	44.65
5	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	42.18
6	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	41.97
7	Svante Johansson	SWE	41.75
8	Diego Mariscal	MEX	40.22
9	Frank Gosling	BER	40.12
10	Peter Heatly	GBR	39.95
11	Peter Elliott	GBR	39.13
12	Milton Busin	BRA	38.58
13	George Athans	CAN	38.22
14	Franz Worisch	AUT	37.62
15	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	37.48
16	Guy Hernandez	FRA	36.89
17	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	36.89
18	Charles Johnson	GBR	36.78
19	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	35.51
20	David Norris	AUS	35.08
21	José Castillo	CUB	34.55
22	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	34.14
23	Eddie Heron	IRL	33.17
24	Ernst Strupler	SUI	32.81
25	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	31.36
26	Willi Lippa	AUT	30.50
27	Günther Mund	CHI	25.76

Final Round (31 July 1948 — 14:00)

Five compulsory dives (forward running header [1.3], back header [1.7], reverse running half gainer [1.9], backward spring-forward dive [1.2], forward running full twist [2.0]).

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Miller Anderson	USA	112.64
2	Bruce Harlan	USA	111.36
3	Sammy Lee	USA	98.53
4	Joaquín Capilla	MEX	94.92
5	Raymond Mulinghausen	FRA	84.37
6	Svante Johansson	SWE	78.45
7	Kamal Ali Hassan	EGY	77.93
8	Thomas Christiansen	DEN	77.11
9	Roger Heinkelé	FRA	76.64
10	George Athans	CAN	75.91
11	Milton Busin	BRA	75.28
12	David Norris	AUS	74.59
13	Franz Worisch	AUT	74.53
14	Frank Gosling	BER	73.86
15	Ismael Ramzi	EGY	73.29
16	Willi Lippa	AUT	72.68
17	Peter Heatly	GBR	71.78
18	Gunnar Kemnitz	BRA	70.86
19	Charles Johnson	GBR	68.54
20	Diego Mariscal	MEX	67.56
21	Guy Hernandez	FRA	66.00
22	Mohamed Ibrahim	EGY	62.01
23	Peter Elliott	GBR	52.10
24	José Castillo	CUB	50.26
25	Ernst Strupler	SUI	47.28
26	Günther Mund	CHI	42.32
DNS	Eddie Heron	IRL	–